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title = "Community News"
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description = "New static-site generator and project updates."
authors = ["vaeringjar"]
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# Updated 2025-01-01

Made several minor updates to the website.

- Added the version to the footer, not just the head.
- Fixed the homepage title.
- Bumped the year.
- TODO: make some note about the version of zola, 0.19.2.

# Migration to Zola

Once again The Peers Community has a new static site generator today,
completely coincidentally the same as the ForgeFed website. I had
considered migrating back to [pelican][], but I prefer the speed and
default configurations for [zola][]. The two of them are nearly a
drop-in replacement for each other, so if zola does not work out for
us, I can migrate again back to pelican with little effort.

One thing to note, some formatting doesn't survive migrating from
pandoc to zola, including footnotes.

Zola is case sensitive.

# Retiring freepost

After a long run, zPlus retired freepost.

To the best of my knowledge:

First archive:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150205130529/http://freepo.st/](https://web.archive.org/web/20150205130529/http://freepo.st/)

Final archive:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20241119092341/https://freepo.st/](https://web.archive.org/web/20241119092341/https://freepo.st/)


# Project News

The [ForgeFed][] project has moved along. I have removed them from the
list of Peers projects, but we will continue to keep in contact. I had
been maintaining the website and hosting it, though not the
registration, but even that I passed over over a year ago.

Collaborative work or at least usage on [fenrisg][] lasted for a few
years, but the other web sites using it have changed mantainers,
including my own with relation to [ForgeFed][]. This became the main
motivation for migrating to something different.


# Highlighted Projects

Maintaining this list has taken quite a bit of time, but since 2021 it
has not received any curation. I will post a copy of it here before I
remove it from [Why?][].

| Project            | Description                                                                                                                                          |
|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Arduino/Genuino]  | Libre prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software.                                                                               |
| [F-Droid]          | Android application package manager                                                                                                                  |
| [Firefox]          | Free web browser by Mozilla                                                                                                                          |
| [FreedomBox]       | A personal server that protects privacy.                                                                                                             |
| [GIMP]             | cross-platform image editor                                                                                                                          |
| [gnusocial]        | Federated social networking/communication software for both public and private communications.                                                       |
| [IceCat]           | GNU version of the Firefox browser. Also, with the FSF directory list of [IceCat Addons].                                                            |
| [keepass2]         | A light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.                                                                                                     |
| [Kontalk]          | End to end encrypted chat, based on XMPP                                                                                                             |
| [LibreOffice]      | A powerful office suite, including word processor, spreadsheets, and slidedeck maker.                                                                |
| [Minetest]         | An infinite-world block sandbox game with survival and crafting.                                                                                     |
| [Mumble]           | A voicechat (VoIP) program originally implemented for gamers written on top of Qt and Speex.                                                         |
| [OpenPhoenux]      | Independent Mobile Tool Community, whose devices run free software.                                                                                  |
| [Replicant]        | A free fork of Android.                                                                                                                              |
| [VLC Media Player] | A cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. |

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[pelican]: https://getpelican.com/
[zola]: https://www.getzola.org/

[ForgeFed]: https://forgefed.peers.community/
[fenrisg]: https://notabug.org/vaeringjar/fenrisg

[Arduino/Genuino]:  https://www.arduino.cc/
[F-Droid]:          https://f-droid.org/
[Firefox]:          https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
[FreedomBox]:       https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
[GIMP]:             https://www.gimp.org/
[gnusocial]:        https://www.gnusocial.rocks/
[IceCat]:           https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
[IceCat Addons]:    https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat
[keepass2]:         https://keepass.info/
[Kontalk]:          https://www.kontalk.org/
[Libregamewiki]:    https://libregamewiki.org/
[LibreOffice]:      https://www.libreoffice.org/
[Minetest]:         https://www.minetest.net/
[Mumble]:           https://www.mumble.info/
[OpenPhoenux]:      https://www.openphoenux.org/
[Replicant]:        https://www.replicant.us/
[VLC Media Player]: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Why?]: https://peers.community/why
